magnox reactor in a sentence

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1. Online refuelling equipment for Magnox reactors proved to be less reliable than the reactor systems, and retrospectively its use was regarded as a mistake.
2. Additional plutonium production was provided by eight electricity generating Magnox reactors at Calder Hall and Chapelcross which started operating in 1956 and 1959 respectively.
3. The graphite cores each weigh; 6, 156 vertical fuel channels contain over 49, 248 natural uranium magnox-clad fuel elements, hence the name magnox reactor.
4. The main plant consisted of two 1, 010 MW ( thermal ) Magnox reactors, which were natural uranium, carbon dioxide gas cooled, graphite moderated units.
5. The splitting process created a separate company in 1996 called'Magnox Electric'- which would hold a proportion of the old CEGB's nuclear stations, its older Magnox reactors.
6. Cook was responsible for the four magnox reactors at Calder Hall, the four reactors under construction at Chapel Cross, and the uranium enrichment plant at Capenhurst.
7. More recently, GCRs based on the declassified drawings of the early Magnox reactors have been constructed by North Korea at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center.
8. But an economic review of Britain's entire Magnox reactor capability showed Chapelcross and another facility, Calder Hall at Sellafield in northern England, were making a loss.
9. Like all Magnox reactors, Hinkley Point A was designed for on-load refuelling so that exhausted fuel elements could be replaced with fresh without shutting down the reactor.
10. Sizewell A, a Magnox reactor built largely in the 1950s and 60s, is next door to Sizewell B, but is run by another company, British Nuclear Fuels.